The Path of Ascension 7: A LitRPG Adventure by C. Mantis

Author:C. Mantis [Mantis, C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aethon Books
Published: 2024-08-07T00:00:00+00:00

Susanne looked around at the house and paused for a moment.

It looked more like Matt, Liz, and Aster’s reward house than her own, which was disconcerting.

Had she set down such ties with them in the last six months? She hadn’t thought so, but now that she thought about it, they were her closest friends.

Her initial reaction was to say that they were second to only her brother, but while he would always be family, he had never understood her drive and determination to make it on The Path. The reasons why she fought and bled day in and day out just to rush up the Tiers with a self-enforced handicap.

Her brother was her only family, but he didn’t understand.

Matt, Liz, and Aster did.

She once heard the saying that ‘friends were the family you choose’ before, but today was the first time she actually realized it was both true and could sneak up on you without really realizing it.

While she still fully intended to once more strike out on her own when they left Minkalla, she was now thinking that she would at least stay in correspondence with them.

The idea of not talking to them at all once they separated didn’t sit right with her.

Maybe she’d even visit Aster when she was sent off to the beast boarding school thing at Tier 15. The fox had told her how much she was worried about being separated from Matt and Liz, and maybe a visit could help.

Was that even possible?

She honestly had no idea but intended to ask Carol about that once she left.

Returning to her mission at hand, she looked at the coffees.

They smelled fantastic. Each was a different roast and blend, and she rubbed her hands in anticipation.

The first she immediately recognized, and it made her pause. It was her parents’ favorite blend. A simple, local blend from their home planet, but not something widely distributed. She wasn’t surprised that Minkalla had pulled it out of her mind but was rather intrigued by its implication.

She knew herself well enough to know she wasn’t a puzzle solver and preferred a direct approach, but in her introspective mood, she wondered how that coffee corresponded to the life Minkalla would create for her.

The other coffees were more normal, though not normal.

Two were rare blends she thought she recognized but couldn’t be sure, but the third coffee was strange. Something closer to an espresso, but not quite. It was smaller than normal, little more than a thimble, but her spiritual perception said it went on endlessly.

Odd, but what in Minkalla hadn’t been odd so far?

Deciding to keep things simple, she grabbed the first cup she’d seen and took a drink.

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